Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-02 Thread George Makrydakis
On Sunday 02 March 2008 02:02:23 David Jensen wrote: > George Makrydakis wrote: > > You know what? This can work on windows as well. > > LOL, and joe-sixpack visits LFS and clicks install ubuntu clone now! What is the lol about? Since when it was impossible to compile cross - platform compatible

Re: Planning an overall direction for LFS

2008-03-02 Thread taipan
Robert Daniels wrote: > On Saturday 01 March 2008 08:59:13 taipan wrote: >> Looks about right to my unskilled eye, but i'd say the 'linearity' of >> modules 1 & 2 would be a bit trickier to implement than it initially >> appears... >> >> If you were to take the 'diy-linux reference-build' as an exa

RPM: proof of concept

2008-03-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, I have digged up the archives of LeafOS lists and extracted RPM instructions and spec files from them. Spec files up to and including Chapter 6 bash are attached (slightly modified). Dan: sorry for ignoring your superior work. Differences from the book: the toolchain adjustment method

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-02 Thread Bryan Kadzban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 George Makrydakis wrote: > On Sunday 02 March 2008 02:02:23 David Jensen wrote: >> George Makrydakis wrote: >>> You know what? This can work on windows as well. >> LOL, and joe-sixpack visits LFS and clicks install ubuntu clone >> now! > > What i

Clearing things off

2008-03-02 Thread TheOldFellow
I'm sorry but I can't continue to take this mailing list. Despite request by Gerard to STFU, the noise continues. I had hoped that ther was some hope for a new project, one that I might enjoy being part of. But there is ONE character who's ego is larger than I can take. If he goes away, would so

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-02 Thread George Makrydakis
On Sunday 02 March 2008 21:33:42 Bryan Kadzban wrote: > I think it's a really bad idea for us to specifically try to teach > anything to Joe Sixpack that's never even used Linux. Note I'm not > saying that everyone who uses LFS had used Linux before they started -- > but those that didn't are mos

Re: [Mutt] --enable-hcache

2008-03-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, at 06:40 Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >> Randy McMurchy wrote: >>> Ag. D. Hatzimanikas wrote these words on 03/02/08 01:57 CST: >>> And just another thing and since we enable Imap, maybe the "--with-ssl" option needs to be enabled by default. >

Re: Clearing things off

2008-03-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
TheOldFellow wrote: > I'm sorry but I can't continue to take this mailing list. Despite > request by Gerard to STFU, the noise continues. I had hoped that ther > was some hope for a new project, one that I might enjoy being part of. > But there is ONE character who's ego is larger than I can take

Re: Planning an overall direction for LFS

2008-03-02 Thread Robert Daniels
On Sunday 02 March 2008 02:26:07 taipan wrote: > > Yeah, you're right. In that sense, separate modules on bootstrapping > & PM would be sequential as you initially proposed. However it still > leaves the (optional) issue of scripting/automating the > bootstrap-module unsolved. I'm afraid i have no

Re: What if the book wasn't a book anymore

2008-03-02 Thread Bryan Kadzban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 George Makrydakis wrote: > First of all, Joe Sixpack is David's term. Yeah, I know that... > Second, I did not use Windows before Linux :) I'm not talking about you. I'm talking about the people that you seem to want to use your program - -- t

Re: Planning an overall direction for LFS

2008-03-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Robert Daniels wrote: > I'm really not too sure what to do about the scripting myself. In some > ways it makes sense to put it with package management, as they both > relate to automation. As you note, it would also make sense before the > bootstrap, to teach how to automate that module. A t

Ok for now

2008-03-02 Thread Thomas Trepl
Never thought that the discussion about the future direction of LFS makes me leaving. At the start time, I was somehow entusiastic and prepared me to contribute time when there is something for me to do. That was just a week ago. But than unfortunatly there did came up a guy which thinks he has